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Description

Description

Virago Press and the Asham Award, the foremost prize for stories by women, present a collection of tales to send you to places you've never been before ...Here are tales of people who travel far and those who stay at home and dream; of strange things in suitcases; of roads that should t have been taken; of exotic cities and shabby towns. Some are running away, and some are travelling to come home. With new stories from well-kwn writers, including Helen Dunmore, and an Angela Carter fable, this is a book to tuck in your backpack, your valise or to enjoy, deep in your armchair, for one can fail to be hooked by those beguiling words: once upon a time there was a traveller ...

Author Biography

The Asham Award was set up by the Asham Literary Endowment trust in 1995 to encourage and promote new women's writing. It is the only short story competition whose winners and runners-up are published alongside some of our best known women writers. Past collections have included specially commissioned stories by Margaret Atwood, Helen Dunmore, A. L. Kennedy, Deborah Moggach, Carol Shields, Helen Simpson, and A.L. Kennedy.